CNN: "A Vest is Like an All-Day Hug"

Pareene — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:45 EDT

Fantastic news! CNN Anchor Don Lemon was finally given permission by his new boss to wear a vest! Everyone at CNN is so excited about this that they spent like 20 minutes talking about how great vests are, and Lemon also showed off his reading glasses. Then he said an amazing aphorism that we are having embroidered on the dress shirt we've just torn the sleeves off of.

Ad-Swathed Girls Soon To Follow Consumers Everywhere

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:23:26 EST

What do you get when you combine the stylish functionality of a bulletproof vest, the alarming increase in the ubiquity of advertising messages, and a thinly-veiled appeal to male lechery? You get the brilliant new "Wearable Video Video Vest," a DYNAMIC concept that DEMANDS attention. If you wear it they WILL watch. The only problem is that the bulky black thingamajig conceals the figure of whatever poor young female intern your ad agency has roped into toting it around at parties while portly older men leer. Pictures from the company's own promo site make the underlying purpose of this groundbreaking annoyance technology very clear:

Young women not included.

[via Adrants]

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CNN: "A Vest is Like an All-Day Hug"

Ad-Swathed Girls Soon To Follow Consumers Everywhere